Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.”

“What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.”

“Old age: the crown of life, our plays last act.”

“If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.”

“There are not many things in life so beautiful as true friendship, and not many things more uncommon.”

“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.”

“A good orator is pointed and impassioned.”

“There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.”

“Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn”

“There are gems of thought that are ageless and eternal”

“The miracle of friendship can be spoken without words... hearing unspoken needs, recognizing secret dreams, understanding the silent things that only true friend know.”

“True love is when you have to watch a friend leave, with the knowledge that you might never see him again. But you know hell be in your mind and heart forever.”

“What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?”

“Men do not realize how great a revenue economy is”

“The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves”

“Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.”

“Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.”

“Socrates said, Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live”

“Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart”

“A person who is wise does nothing against their will, nothing with sighing or under coercion.”